Community members are searched by South African Police Service (SAPS) officers before entering the mine shaft to negotiate with artisanal miners underground to resurface in Stilfontein on November 13, ...

The state of South Africa is denying thousands of miners access to food and water, putting their lives at risk ...

The government has refused assistance to a group of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine in North West province, as part of a law enforcement operation aimed at deterring illegal mining ...

A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners to allow emergency workers to gain access to a ...

South Africa is a mineral-rich country ... The SAPS has previously said that among those to resurface from the Stilfontein ...

A South African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds, possibly ...

A court says emergency workers must be allowed to enter a mine where hundreds are thought to be without food and water.

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights ...

Emergency services have been at the site, in Stilfontein, around 90 miles south-west of Johannesburg ... More than 1,000 miners have already emerged and been arrested. South Africa is a mineral-rich ...

The South African government said on Friday it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan ...

Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a ...

The South African government has refused to help an estimated 4,000 miners illegally occupying an underground mine in Stilfontein, attempting to “smoke them out” and crack down on illegal mining.